Posted on 12/29/2008 9:26:30 AM PST by Fawn
West Boca - Mariah Moorhead knew something was wrong when Jake, her Labrador-Dutch shepherd, kept sniffing at the door, insisting to return outside their home.
The two had just come back from an hourlong walk and workout but she reluctantly opened it. There stood her neighbor, Catalina Medina, bleeding.
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Becky-—Lurker hates cats so much his head is going to explode. Hopefully only a few of his kind exist. I agree with you...and that’s why there are “CAT TEARS APART AND KILLS NEIGHBORS DOG AND KIDS” articles out there.
The owners of mean dogs ought to be sued until it hurts them. Hit these people in the pocketbook hard, then maybe they'll do something about their vicious mutts.
I've spent well over 500 dollars having my dogs treated for the parasitic worms which are spread by the feral cats in my neighborhood.
Yes, I know it's the cats. Our vet confirmed it from the 'samples' we gave her.
but Joe Shmoe’s calico should be left alone.
Joe Smoe's calico doesn't belong in my backyard.
L Don't tell me they're harmless. They've put quite the dent in the Lurker budget this year.
L
and that’s why there are NO “CAT TEARS APART AND KILLS NEIGHBORS DOG AND KIDS” articles out there.
You aren’t suggesting that cats have the right to roam around on other’s people’s propery, are you?
But most likely your dogs got sick from diseased carrying birds:
It's unbelievable the diseases that BIRDS BRING TO YOUR BACK YARD
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Air Sack Mites ... Air Sack Rupture ... Allergic Alveolitis ... Anatomy (Avian) ... Aspergillosis ... Avian Brain Disease ... Avian Flu ... Avian Goiter (Thyroid Hyperplasia or Dysplasia) ... Avian Gout ... Avian Influenza ... Avian Pox ... Avian Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium) Bacterial Infections ... Baldness ... Beak & Feather Disease ... Beak Problems / Deformities ... Bird Fancier's / Breeders Lungs (Allergic Alvolitis) ... Bird Flu ... Bite Wounds ... Bleeding ... Blepharitis ... Blocked Gizzard ... Bordetella ... Botulism ... Brain Disease ... Breeding-related Problems ... Broken Legs / Toes ... Bronchitis ... Bumble Foot ... Bursal Disease Canary Pox Virus ... Candida / Candidiasis ... Cancer ... Canker (Trichomoniasis, more commonly known as “pigeon canker) ... Chick Deformities ... Chlamydia / Chlamydiosis ... Chronic Egg Laying ... Cryptosporidium / Coccidia ... Coccidiosis ... Conjunctivitis ... Coryza Diabetes ... Diarrhea Egg Binding ... Egg Laying (Chronic) ... Egg Yolk Peritonitis / Egg Peritonitis ... Emphysema ... Enteritis ... Eye Problems Fatty Tumors ... Feather Cysts / Feather Lumps ... Feather Disorders ... Feather Lice ... Feather Plucking / Chewing ... Fowl Cholera ... French Molt ... Fungal Infections Giardia ... Gizzard (Blocked) ... Gout Heavy Metal Poisoning ... Hemochromatosis ... Herpes ... Hypothyroidism Infectious Bronchitis ... Infectious Bursal Disease ... Infectious Coryza ... Infectious Sinusitis ... Influenza Kidney Disease / Problems Laryngotracheitis Lead Poisoning ... Liver Disease ... Lymhpoid Leukosis Macaw Wasting Disease ... Marek's Disease ... Megabacteria / Megabacteriosis ... Metal Poisoning ... Mites & Lice ... Mutilation ... Myialges Nudus ... Mycoplasmosis Necrotic Enteritis ... Neuropathic Gastric Dilatation ... Newcastles Disease ... Nutritional Disorders Omphalitis ... Overheating Pacheco's Disease ... Pasteurella ... Papilloma ... Parasites ... Parrot Fever ... PBFD ... Pneumonia ... Psittacosis / Chlamydiosis / Ornithosis ... Pseudomonas ... PDD ... Poisoning ... Polyoma ... Pox Virus ... Prolapsed Cloaca ... Psittacine Beak & Feather Disease. Regurgitation ... Respiratory Distress / Diseases Salmonella / Salmonellosis ... Sarcocystosis ... Scaly Face & Scaly Feet Disease ... Seizures ... Self / Skin-Mutilation ... Sinusitis ... Skin & Feather Disorders ... Stargazing Teflon Poisoning ... Thyroid Problems ... Tuberculosis ... Tumors (Cancer) ... Tumors (Fatty) ... Toxicities / Poisoning / Ingestion ... Trichomonas Visceral Gout ... Visceral Leukosis (Marek's Disease) ... Vomiting West Nile Virus ... Wet Vents Yeast Infections Zinc Poisoning ... Zoonotic (Bird / Human) Diseases ~~~~~~~~~~
You are very wise. Like pet wolves and hybrid wolves the behavior of pit bulls and inbred Rottweilers is extremely unpredictable. They can attack their owners for no reason and should NOT be trusted with children. If you want a big dog that's protective and loyal get an Irish Wolfhound. My IW weighed 175lbs and the one day when two Dobermans came after me he made quick work of the two Dobies (killing them) and then came up to me wagging his tail and I told him he was a good boy.
Same reason we don't like the neighbors' cats. They have also scratched up our cars trying to get to the hood or roof to sit, leave pawprints on the windshields, etc.
The only way to keep a cat contained is to keep it in the house, or to have enough acreage that it won't go to someone else's house.
I don't mind cats per se, but if I wanted one in my yard, I'd get my own.
I am. Just like birds, raccoons, possum, snake, ants...it’s natural. Take it up with God....he gave them the instinct to wander in Nature.
And your parents should have taught you manners.
My vet says it isn't necessary for them to ingest the feline fecal matter. The eggs get into the soil where the dogs pick them up simply by walking in MY (yes it is MINE) backyard.
Now you wouldn't deny me the Right to the peaceful enjoyment of my own property would you?
L
In California the law since 1991 allows anyone to trap cats or dogs found on their property. Several other states have similar laws. Myself, I have chickens and any cat that survives an encounter with my rooster will go to the pound because I have zero tolerance for these criters in my yard.
One reason that animal welfare groups suggest that your pet cat be kept indoors...cats will kill birds. It's what they do.
We are in the country, way back on sixteen and a half acres - which is a fairly good start on the anti-subdivisionism solution for life. You’re right, though. Forty acres is even better, and even with that much land, one can still eventually get neighbors suddenly (usually gradually) building up too close to where we choose to build our houses on our land. Neighbors bought the eleven acres on both sides of us, and one has built his house right back here almost parallel and unnecessarily close to our house - the one to the right of us couldn’t build close because of the property line and lay of the land - however, he has junked up his property with old abandoned vehicles on blocks and other junk facing our property. We have planted Leyland Cypress on the left, and don’t know what we’re going to plant on the right.
My advice is, even on forty or more (preferably) acres, DON’T BUILD TOO CLOSE TO THE PROPERTY LINE on either side. Also, if the ten acres adjoining your forty acres comes up for sale - buy it, even if you think it’s a little too high. Ten years down the road and a few arrogant neighbors later, it won’t look so expensive after all.
No, I'll take it up with your local animal control dept.
City and county jurisdictions allow for trapping of animals, and that includes cats. The fact that cats roam may be “natural”, but people have private property rights. Your cat doesn't have the right to trespass on other people's fenced property.
You understand that you can be held liable for damages caused by your cat in other people's yards, right?
My dog story. My brother still lives in Bama...in a town of less than 250 folks. Some folks moved into a trailer near his house and had two big dogs who were fairly aggressive. My brother’s neighbor had a small dog which normally sat around the carport. The two big dogs came up and cornered the small dog in a shed...when the neighbor came out with a pistol and shot the one dog in the shed dead. The other left and disappeared. His dog was in bad shape but survived.
So the guy shows up at the trailer and lets them that something attacked his dog (never admitting that he’d shot the one dog). The kids and the woman totally denied it was their dogs...so he asked where they were...there was only one in the trailer with them. Then he walked away. By nightfall....about thirty neighbors knew the story. Each one had a gun by the door and were ready to shoot the second remaining dog if it appeared. The family kept that dog locked in the trailer for months and he only got outdoor time if on a leash.
Still today...two years have passed and they would still shoot the dog if they saw it in public. Mind you....you couldn’t accomplish something like this in most states and this is in the south.
Your cat has no right to be in my yard. One neighbor noticed a strange smell on the way to work - turned out someone’s cat had been in the engine compartment. It died on the way to work.
Around here, coyotes do a pretty good job of stray animal control.
Do you do the same for rats? If you keep the cats locked up, the rats will be paying you a visit.
Our neighbors have an abused pit bull that gets out quite a bit. But the dog is crippled and I can walk faster than it can run.
But it is coyote bait at this point.
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